David Carrier (; born 1944) is an American philosopher of art and

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Education

Carrier received a Ph.D. in philosophy from

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, where he was a student of Arthur Danto, in 1972. He was a Getty Scholar (1999–2000), a Clark Fellow (2004), a Senior Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2006–2007 and holder of the Fulbright-Luce Lectureship, Spring 2009.

Work

Carrier was the Champney Family Professor in the department of art and art history at

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and was a professor of philosophy at

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. He is the author of ''Principles of Art History Writing'' (Penn State University Press, 1991), ''The Aesthete in the City: The Philosophy and Practice of American Abstract Painting in the 1980s'' (Penn State University Press, 1994), ''High Art:

Charles Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics ...

and the Origins of Modernist Painting'' (Penn State University Press, 1996), ''A World Art History and Its Objects'' (Penn State University Press, 2009), ''The Aesthetics of Comics'' (Penn State University Press, 2000), and ''Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries'' (Duke University Press, 2006), and ''Wild Art'' with his partner Joachim Pissarro (Phaidon Press), among others. He is a contributor to '' Artforum'', '' BOMB Magazine'', and ''ArtUS.'' He has written about the history and philosophy of art writing, raising questions about the relativism of art writing in different eras by comparing texts written about the same artwork and analyzing changing styles of interpretation.

Books

*''Truth and Falsity in Visual Images'' (with

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) (University of Massachusetts Press, 1983) *''Artwriting'' (University of Massachusetts Press, 1987) *''Principles of Art History Writing'' (Penn State University Press, 1991) *''Poussin's Paintings: A Study in Art-Historical Methodology'' (Penn State University Press, 1993) *''The Aesthete in the City: The Philosophy and Practice of American Abstract Painting in the 1980s'' (Penn State University Press, 1994) *''

Nicolas Poussin Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythologic ...

: Lettere sull'arte'' (Editor, with an introduction; Hestia edizione, 1995) *''High Art:

and the Origins of Modernism'' (Penn State University Press, 1996) *''England and Its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste'' (Routledge, 1998) *'' Garner Tullis: The Life of Collaboration'' (Garner Tullis, 1998) *''The Aesthetics of Comics'' (Penn State University Press, 2000) *'' Rosalind Krauss and American Philosophical Art Criticism: From Formalism to Beyond Postmodernism'' (Praeger, 2002) *''Writing about Visual Art (Aesthetics Today)'' (Allworth Press, 2003) *'' Sean Scully'' (Thames & Hudson, 2004) *''Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries'' (Duke University Press, 2006) *''A World Art History and Its Objects'' (Penn State University Press, 2009) *''Proust/Warhol: Analytical Philosophy of Art'' (Peter Lang, 2009)

References

External links

Official website
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